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Southern Highlands · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1900

15 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

John Storm Answers

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 2

SIR,—In reply to Greater Briton in your issue of last Saturday, John Storm " wishes to inform him that in his letters to you re the South African War, not one word was mentioned about the Pope, the…

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John Storm and the L.O.L.

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 1

SIR,—What John Storm calls the Yellow Pup has, allow me to tell him, got a mouthful of goad sound teeth at its biting end, and would be pleased to allow John to enjoy a tasto of their quality, if the Y.P…

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Latest News. Sydney, Tuesday. Heavy storm this afternoon

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 4 April 1900 · page 5

There were two more cases of plague One named Smith residing at Canterbury and who was employed in George Street, near the post office. The other…

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Cyclone at Mullaley

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 14 April 1900 · page 2

Gunnedah, Wednesday.—A windstorm of cyclonic fores [?] in this district yesterday afternoon, and was most severely felt along the Gunnedah…

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Rains, Floods, &c

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 23 May 1900 · page 5

In the southern coastal region of this colony and in the Gippsland district of Victoria during the last week very heavy rains occurred. AT Twofold Bay…

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The Meteor Flag. Out From the Shadows of the Past; by Flood and Field. An Historical Ensign

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 9 June 1900 · page 3

THE mast noticable feature of the recent patriotic demonstration has been the silken ensign borne by Mr. W. Stokes—the Union Jack of Old England. Not an ordinary ensign in all its newness, merely…

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Storms, Rain, and Floods

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 5

Mr. Kussell is of opinion that the wind storm and accompanying rains do not extend westward of the Dividing Range. Up to 9 a.m. on Thursday the…

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"A Heavy Wet." Record Rainfall. Snow, Frost, Rain, and Flood. Football Experiences a Bit Rough. Narrow Escape From Drowning

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 2

THE party in charge of the watering can up aloft has evidently lost the run of his spray and given us the benefit of a full head of the common fluid. It is related that one of the hard cases attached to…

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Flooded Out. a Bowral Shooting Party Swamped

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 11 July 1900 · page 2

ON Tuesday week a shooting party, consisting, of Messrs J. and T. Hogan, G. Garling, and Ted. Ritchings, left for a few day's sport on the Bullio ranges, adjacent to the Wollendilly river. The…

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The Storm-Cloud's Cradle

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 18 August 1900 · page 4

AMONGST the most startling adventures which the writer has experienced, perhaps one of the strangest occurred some time ago in Switzerland in the course of an ascent of one of the mountains. The morning broke fair and bright, one of those…

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A Long Nervous Storm

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 27 October 1900 · page 3

IF you ever watched a dentist draw a nerve out of a tooth, you will remember how much it looked like a little [?]nip of wet, white o[?]tton thread. How can [?] public a thing inflict such a [?]…

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A Long Nervous Storm

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 3 November 1900 · page 3

IF you over watched a dentist draw a nerve out of a tooth, you will remember how much it looked like a little ship of wet, white cotton thread. How can so contemptible a thing inflict such a mountain…

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A Long Nervous Storm

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 21 November 1900 · page 3

IF you ever watched a dentist draw a nerve out of a tooth, you will remember how much it looked like a little snip of wet white cotton thread. How can so contemptible a thing inflict such a mountain…

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A Long Nervous Storm

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 24 November 1900 · page 4

IF you over watched a dentist draw a nerve out of a tooth, you will remember how much it looked like a little snip of wet, white cotton thread. How can so contemptible a thing infliet such a mountain…

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Twice Destroyed. By Flood and Flame

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 5 December 1900 · page 3

MR. John Stokes, of Rose-street, Bowral, has for the past twelve months been employed doing maintenance work on the Wombeyan Caves road, his camping…

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